"Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper."

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Source : Ettore Sottsass, Barbara Radice (1988). “Design metaphors”, Rizzoli International Publications

Ettore Sottsass

#Design Quotes #Perception Quotes #Mind Quotes

“My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job.”
“The Bible says to 'fear not,' but this doesn't mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.”
“"No" is a word that must never be negotiated, because the person who chooses not to hear it is trying to control you... Declining to hear "no" is a signal that someone is either seeking control or refusing to relinquish it.”

Source : Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company
“No one thinks in your mind except you.”
“The schedule of doing a live TV show every week is very difficult.”
“Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.”
“I was a very quiet kid. A really sweet kid, I might add.”
“Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to.”

Source : Taylor Mali (2012). “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World”, p.17, Penguin

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